16 research outputs found
Study of the hot forging of weld cladded work pieces using upsetting tests
This paper focuses on the hot forging of multi-material cladded work pieces using upsetting tests. Thecase study corresponds to gas metal arc welding cladding of a SS316L on a mild steel (C15). Experimentaltests and simulations using a slab model and the finite element method were performed using differenttemperatures and die/billet tribological conditions. As a result, a crack mode, specific to clad billets, wasobserved experimentally and can be predicted by the FE method using a Latham and Cockcroft criterion.The material distribution was well simulated by the FE method; in particular, the effects of the frictionat die/work piece interface on the crack occurrence, the material distribution and, to a lesser extent,the forging load are well predicted. However, the latter was underestimated, highlighting the fact thatthe effect of the dilution associated with the cladding process on the material behavior of the clad layercannot be neglected.Région Lorraine HEC of Pakista
Decomposed Soft Prompt Guided Fusion Enhancing for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize novel concepts
formed by known states and objects during training. Existing methods either
learn the combined state-object representation, challenging the generalization
of unseen compositions, or design two classifiers to identify state and object
separately from image features, ignoring the intrinsic relationship between
them. To jointly eliminate the above issues and construct a more robust CZSL
system, we propose a novel framework termed Decomposed Fusion with Soft Prompt
(DFSP)1, by involving vision-language models (VLMs) for unseen composition
recognition. Specifically, DFSP constructs a vector combination of learnable
soft prompts with state and object to establish the joint representation of
them. In addition, a cross-modal decomposed fusion module is designed between
the language and image branches, which decomposes state and object among
language features instead of image features. Notably, being fused with the
decomposed features, the image features can be more expressive for learning the
relationship with states and objects, respectively, to improve the response of
unseen compositions in the pair space, hence narrowing the domain gap between
seen and unseen sets. Experimental results on three challenging benchmarks
demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art
methods by large margins.Comment: 10 pages included reference, conferenc
GBE-MLZSL: A Group Bi-Enhancement Framework for Multi-Label Zero-Shot Learning
This paper investigates a challenging problem of zero-shot learning in the
multi-label scenario (MLZSL), wherein, the model is trained to recognize
multiple unseen classes within a sample (e.g., an image) based on seen classes
and auxiliary knowledge, e.g., semantic information. Existing methods usually
resort to analyzing the relationship of various seen classes residing in a
sample from the dimension of spatial or semantic characteristics, and transfer
the learned model to unseen ones. But they ignore the effective integration of
local and global features. That is, in the process of inferring unseen classes,
global features represent the principal direction of the image in the feature
space, while local features should maintain uniqueness within a certain range.
This integrated neglect will make the model lose its grasp of the main
components of the image. Relying only on the local existence of seen classes
during the inference stage introduces unavoidable bias. In this paper, we
propose a novel and effective group bi-enhancement framework for MLZSL, dubbed
GBE-MLZSL, to fully make use of such properties and enable a more accurate and
robust visual-semantic projection. Specifically, we split the feature maps into
several feature groups, of which each feature group can be trained
independently with the Local Information Distinguishing Module (LID) to ensure
uniqueness. Meanwhile, a Global Enhancement Module (GEM) is designed to
preserve the principal direction. Besides, a static graph structure is designed
to construct the correlation of local features. Experiments on large-scale
MLZSL benchmark datasets NUS-WIDE and Open-Images-v4 demonstrate that the
proposed GBE-MLZSL outperforms other state-of-the-art methods with large
margins.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figure
DRPT: Disentangled and Recurrent Prompt Tuning for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
Compositional Zero-shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize novel concepts
composed of known knowledge without training samples. Standard CZSL either
identifies visual primitives or enhances unseen composed entities, and as a
result, entanglement between state and object primitives cannot be fully
utilized. Admittedly, vision-language models (VLMs) could naturally cope with
CZSL through tuning prompts, while uneven entanglement leads prompts to be
dragged into local optimum. In this paper, we take a further step to introduce
a novel Disentangled and Recurrent Prompt Tuning framework termed DRPT to
better tap the potential of VLMs in CZSL. Specifically, the state and object
primitives are deemed as learnable tokens of vocabulary embedded in prompts and
tuned on seen compositions. Instead of jointly tuning state and object, we
devise a disentangled and recurrent tuning strategy to suppress the traction
force caused by entanglement and gradually optimize the token parameters,
leading to a better prompt space. Notably, we develop a progressive fine-tuning
procedure that allows for incremental updates to the prompts, optimizing the
object first, then the state, and vice versa. Meanwhile, the optimization of
state and object is independent, thus clearer features can be learned to
further alleviate the issue of entangling misleading optimization. Moreover, we
quantify and analyze the entanglement in CZSL and supplement entanglement
rebalancing optimization schemes. DRPT surpasses representative
state-of-the-art methods on extensive benchmark datasets, demonstrating
superiority in both accuracy and efficiency
Experimental & Numerical Study of the Hot Upsetting of Weld Cladded Billets
The presented work is dedicated to studying the forgeability of bimaterial cladded billet. Hot upsetting tests of cylindrical low carbon steel (C15) billets weld cladded (MIG) by stainless steel (SS316L) are experimentally and numerically studied. Upsetting tests with different upsetting ratios are performed in different tribology conditions at 1050°C which is within the better forgeability temperature range of both substrate and cladding materials[ 1 ]. Slab model and finite-element simulation are conducted to parametrically study the potential forgeability of the bimaterial cladded billet. The viscoplastic law is adopted to model the friction at the die/billet interface. The friction condition at the die/billet interface has a great impact on the final material distribution, forging effort and cracking occurrence. With Latham and Cockcroft Criterion, the possibility and potential position of cracks could be predicted
Imminent extinction in the wild of the world's largest amphibian
Species with large geographic ranges are considered resilient to global decline. However, human pressures on biodiversity affect increasingly large areas, in particular across Asia, where market forces drive overexploitation of species. Range-wide threat assessments are often costly and thus extrapolated from non-representative local studies. The Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus), the world’s largest amphibian, is thought to occur across much of China, but populations are harvested for farming as luxury food. Between 2013 and 2016, we conducted field surveys and 2,872 interviews in possibly the largest wildlife survey conducted in China. This extensive effort revealed that populations of this once-widespread species are now critically depleted or extirpated across all surveyed areas of their range, and illegal poaching is widespread
Experimental & Numerical Study of the Hot Upsetting of Weld Cladded Billets
International audienceThe presented work is dedicated to studying the forgeability of bimaterial cladded billet. Hot upsetting tests of cylindrical low carbon steel (C15) billets weld cladded (MIG) by stainless steel (SS316L) are experimentally and numerically studied. Upsetting tests with different upsetting ratios are performed in different tribology conditions at 1050°C which is within the better forgeability temperature range of both substrate and cladding materials[ 1 ]. Slab model and finite-element simulation are conducted to parametrically study the potential forgeability of the bimaterial cladded billet. The viscoplastic law is adopted to model the friction at the die/billet interface. The friction condition at the die/billet interface has a great impact on the final material distribution, forging effort and cracking occurrence. With Latham and Cockcroft Criterion, the possibility and potential position of cracks could be predicted
Graph Knows Unknowns: Reformulate Zero-Shot Learning as Sample-Level Graph Recognition
Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is an extreme case of transfer learning that aims to recognize samples (e.g., images) of unseen classes relying on a train-set covering only seen classes and a set of auxiliary knowledge (e.g., semantic descriptors). Existing methods usually resort to constructing a visual-to-semantics mapping based on features extracted from each whole sample. However, since the visual and semantic spaces are inherently independent and may exist in different manifolds, these methods may easily suffer from the domain bias problem due to the knowledge transfer from seen to unseen classes. Unlike existing works, this paper investigates the fine-grained ZSL from a novel perspective of sample-level graph. Specifically, we decompose an input into several fine-grained elements and construct a graph structure per sample to measure and utilize element-granularity relations within each sample. Taking advantage of recently developed graph neural networks (GNNs), we formulate the ZSL problem to a graph-to-semantics mapping task, which can better exploit element-semantics correlation and local sub-structural information in samples. Experimental results on the widely used benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed method can mitigate the domain bias problem and achieve competitive performance against other representative methods
Broad protective immune responses elicited by bacterium-like particle-based intranasal pneumococcal particle vaccine displaying PspA2 and PspA4 fragments
Streptococcus pneumoniae is an infectious pathogen mainly infecting host bodies through the respiratory system. An effective pneumococcal vaccine would be targeted to the mucosa and provide not only protection against invasive infection but also against colonization in the respiratory system. In the present work, we applied bacterium-like particles (BLPs) as an adjuvant for the development of a PspA mucosal vaccine, in which the PspA protein was displayed on the surface of BLPs. Intranasal immunization with the PspA-BLP pneumococcal vaccine, comprised of PspA2 from pneumococcal family 1 and PspA4 from pneumococcal family 2, not only induced a high level of serum IgG antibodies but also a high level of mucosal SIgA antibodies. Analysis of binding of serum antibodies to intact bacteria showed a broad coverage of binding to pneumococcal strains expressing PspA from clade 1 to 5. Immunization with the PspA-BLP vaccine conferred protection against fatal intranasal challenge with both PspA family 1 and family 2 pneumococcal strains regardless of serotype. Therefore, the PspA-BLP pneumococcal vaccine was demonstrated to be a promising strategy for mucosal immunization to enhance both systemic and mucosal immune responses